Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,208 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas (1867-1885)
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(1865) General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15
Evelyn Granville
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Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924- )
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Robert Smalls (1839-1915)

Explore Global African History

Mahamadou Issoufou, 2014 (Wikipedia)
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Mahamadou “Zaki” Issoufou (1952- )
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Samuel Kanyon Doe (1951-1990)
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Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
(1954- )
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(1906) Isaka Seme, “The Regeneration of Africa”

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama
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Telling Carl Maxey’s Story: Understanding the Fighter in the Ring and the Courtroom
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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South
Publicity Still From 'Sergeant Rutledge'
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In the Heat of the West: Woody Strode, Sergeant Rutledge, and the Buffalo Soldier

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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